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Krugman was President of the Eastern Economic Association in 2010, [11] and is among the most influential economists in the world. [12] He is known in academia for his work on international economics (including trade theory and international finance), [ 13 ] [ 14 ] economic geography, liquidity traps , and currency crises .
Progressive economics—also known as New Progressive Economics [6] —made a comeback in the United States to the forefront public discourse after the Great Recession of the late 2000s. Popular dissatisfaction with government policies favouring big business and the bailout of banks led to the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Jim Stanford is a Canadian economist and founder of the Progressive Economics Forum. He holds a master's degree in economics from Cambridge University and a doctorate from the New School for Social Research. He is author of a column for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.
His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide. [1] The treatise investigates the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress, the business cycle with its cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of rent capture such as land value taxation and other ...
John Kenneth Galbraith [a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist ...
Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. [4] One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, [5] [6] [7] he produced writings that are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, and its various offshoots. [8]
But increasingly, mainstream as well as progressive economists are making the case that the prices just didn’t need to go up this much. Outside the U.S., corporations as well as governments have ...
Gary Stanley Becker (/ ˈ b ɛ k ər /; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. [1] He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.